Systems and methods for displaying content based on event monitoring are disclosed herein. A computing device plays a delayed portion of a live content stream communicated to the computing device via a communication network. The computing device detects an event in the live content stream and determines a rank of the event. Based on the rank of the event, the computing device determines whether to play the event instead of the delayed portion of the live content stream. In response to determining to play the event, the computing device plays the event instead of the delayed portion of the live content stream.